...Aimee Armande Wilson This essay argues that the presence of birth control in a narrative interrupts generic conventions by conditioning modernist subjectivities. The symbolic possibilities of birth control carry the promise and threat of rupture. In the case of Flannery O'Connor's short story...

..., at the time of his birth, are subjects of the Emperor of China, but have a permanent domicil and residence in the United States and are there carrying on business, and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity under the emperor of China, becomes at the time of his birth a citizen...

... of Harvard University Press , 1987 . Beckett Samuel . Waiting for Godot . New York : Grove Press , 1954 . Brown Raymond Edward . The Birth of the Messiah: A Commentary on the Infancy Narratives in Matthew and Luke . Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday , 1977 . Bruns Gerald L...

... and song, some event that is without price and in the bargain over and above the market. In the phrase that I am going to cite, Ornette speaks much of birth, of genetics and thus of genealo- gy, which would also bring back onto the stage his mother's spectral voice. By opposing creation...

... . Ronan Ruth . Possible Worlds in Literary Theory . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 1994 . Ryan Marie-Laure . Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory . Bloomington : Indiana U P , 1991 . Soud Stephen E. “ Blood-Red Wombs and Monstrous Births: Aristotle’s...

... H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico.” American Literary History 5 . 2 ( 1993 ): 231 - 49 . Foucault Michel . Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison . Trans. Sheridan Alan . New York : Vintage , 1979 . Franco Jean . “A Not-So Romantic Journey...

.... Desiderio's imprisonment in the absent mayor's office uses the tropes of the maternal body, such as the fagade's "stucco breasts" (63). As he climbs up the chimney to escape, he describes his actions in terms of a birth: "my overwrought senses soon convinced me the passage was steadily growing...

... million men working in Britain in 1944." p. 139: line 8 should read "distanced from the domestic'—that offered a nar- rative model" p. 147: line 4 should read "a woman ] giving birth" Errata in Luke Carson, "Dreams of Decorum: John Ashbery's Manners" p. 164: line...

... York : Simon and Schuster , 1990 . Davis Francis . Bebop and Nothingness: Jazz and Pop at the End of the Century . New York : Schirmer , 1996 . DeMichael Don . `` Gabor Szabo: Jazz and the Changing Times .'' Downbeat 5 Oct. 1967 . DeVeaux Scott . The Birth...

..., and Woolf, realize the aesthetic commitments that guide Moi's critical prescriptions. In her earlier book, Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism , Moi ( 2006 : 19) took aim at what she called, following Fredric Jameson, the “ideology of modernism,” claiming that it had distorted literary history and criticism...

... what fluid, what wetness, its humidity had birth? A moist center? Things, inside? That was Nakota’s guess, but I knew, absolutely knew that it was the Funhole itself, the black fact of it, sending up that tangible liquidy smell. (Chap. 1) Part of Nicholas’s superior ability...

...: A Theory of Poetry . New York : Oxford UP , 1973 . Foucault Michel . Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison . Trans. Sheridan Alan . New York : Vintage , 1979 . Gilbert Sandra M. Gubar Susan . The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century...

... the character is, of course, generated by the text, it appears that the text has to some extent been generated by the character. The autogamous narrative becomes an account of its own birthing process; its own construction becomes both its central plot point and its structural principle. Nar- rative...

... with the world of medicine concern primarily beginnings or endings — miraculous births or the processes of preparing to die. This is not true, however, of poetry and children’s literature. Both these genres tend to prefer the middle parts — what happens as life moves between...

... wonderfully detailed chronology offers not only a list of plays/productions and standard biographical data (birth, schooling, mar- riages) but also alerts its audience to significant moments in the surrounding culture and the author's theatrical development—Vaclav Havel's arrest, the first production...

... wonderfully detailed chronology offers not only a list of plays/productions and standard biographical data (birth, schooling, mar- riages) but also alerts its audience to significant moments in the surrounding culture and the author's theatrical development—Vaclav Havel's arrest, the first production...

... . `` The Flâneur .'' 1967 . Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism . Trans. Zohn Harry . London : New Left , 1973 . 35 - 66 . Bennett Tony . The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics . London : Routledge , 1995 . Boone Troy . Youth of Darkest...

... and Composition of Invisible Man .'' New Essays on Invisible Man . Ed. O'Meally Robert . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 1988 . 55 - 94 . Davis Miles Troupe Quincy . Miles: The Autobiography . New York : Simon and Schuster , 1989 . DeVeaux Scott . The Birth of Bebop: A Social...

... work. Illuminating Stoppard as a writer working within and drawing upon a larger ferment of ideas, Paul Delaney's wonderfully detailed chronology offers not only a list of plays/productions and standard biographical data (birth, schooling, mar- riages) but also alerts its audience...

... Moi's Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism (2006) in arguing for a profound continuity between turn-of-the-century realist drama and subsequent modernist experiments. This claim never becomes an organizing principle, however; Balkin's readings of Genet, Beckett, and Kopit in a single final chapter...